just watched a moving documentary called Earth from Above. today was about water and dams and its both beautiful (the free waterfalls) and sad (the trapped rivers). have been watching this series and always never fails to touch me - how some ppl fight so hard for a worthy cause, to save the earth we live in. perhaps living in a city, we forget how beautiful our world actually is. or take it for granted. actually not-so-beautiful anymore. it once was. the glory past.
but from the beautiful photography u can catch a glimpse of how beautiful the earth really is. the flood plains and marshes of the Savannah. the biologist was wading in the marshes, hand in hand, or rather, hand-in-nose with the elephant. and how happily the animals frolic in the marshes, the beautiful wild scenery, the calm of the indigenous fishermen collecting their netted fish in the sunset. there is a pact and signed agreement abt the preserving of the marshlands in Africa but the ever-present threat of damming up the river still remains. and all those who depend on the river. so fragile. can be lost so easily.
the atrocities committed in argentina and the forceful eviction of people from their homes just to make way for the dam. how the man almost cried as he recounted wt he has lost since his youth. how he fights so hard, but against the impossible. how huge the dam is, how powerful, how much money, how much corruption, how much embezzlement. (i think perhaps this is the most political statement i hv ever made in my life. i dun hv any political standing. hope no one in argentina govt reads it then come and ham-tam me. dun cry for me argentina).
i see how ppl set up NGOs and how passionate they are abt saving wt the cherish. wt used to be a wide flowing river of life is now a stagnant cesspool of rotting tree stumps. fish die. the river gets poisoned. the concrete wall has so destroyed the fragile ecosystem. so upsetting. i hate dams.
actually tv is supposed to be relaxing not supposed to make u feel agitated. documentaries normally give me a happy feeling but not this one. other documentaries make me sad like last time i saw how the polar bear got no more ice bergs to sit on then he swim until v tired and he died. but this documentary makes me feel like something CAN and SHOULD be done. makes me feel like marching on the streets to denounce global warming, wastage and refuse, and building of dams. but instead i just sit here.. i see, i hear, but i cant do anything. someone pls stop the govts, the conglomerates, the MNCs who exploit so much.
what can i do? how can i help? i really dont know.. i think i need a small farm with a sheep and grow my own vegetables.
maybe in singapore we are just apathetic to wt goes on ard us, living in our own lil red dot. but i think we can and should not ignore the plight that our earth is currently facing. living in a city we dont see the effects, but others are just so adversely affected it just scares me to think where will our earth be in 50 years time. where will our small farmers be, our rivers, our polar icecaps.
sometimes i just cant wait for the New Heavens and the New Earth.
restored beauty, restored perfection. where nothing will be spoilt.
